Trick to enable Do Not Disturb feature on Mac

Not only with iPhone or iPad devices, the Mac also has the Do Not Disturb feature with a mission to help users focus more on their work, avoiding being bothered by other out-of-the-box notifications. And activating the Do Not Disturb feature on a Mac is no stranger to everyone who uses it.

In the traditional way, to use the Do Not Disturb feature on Mac OS machines, users need to click on the 3-dash icon on the right to open the notification center. Next, you'll hover over the Do Not Disturb item and open the ON status to enable this feature as shown below:

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However, there is a much simpler way to activate the Do Not Disturb feature on Macs. You will not need 3 or 4 operations with the traditional way above. So how do you enable Do Not Disturb on Mac? Please refer to the tutorial below.

Step 1:

First of all, we will press and hold the Options key on the keyboard.

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Step 2:

Then we click on the notification area , the Do Not Disturb option will be turned on or off immediately. If we have enabled this feature , the icon will be gray . Otherwise, if Do Not Disturb is turned off , it will be black in the icon as shown below.

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Pretty simple, isn't it ?! Although there are many people who are familiar with how to turn on or off Do Not Disturb in the traditional way, it is through the Notification Center to check if the feature is enabled. But with just a few simple presses, the operations on your computer will be greatly reduced, increasing the performance on the machine.

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I wish you all success!